| Perdido Street blogger asks why it is impossible to find out who contributed to the lobbying group Families for Excellent Schools, which spent $6 million this year to prevent Mayor Bill de Blasio from regulating the charter school sector and won a law that forces the city to pay the rent of charters not located on public school grounds. It describes how this lobbying group exploited loopholes to avoid complying with state laws that require disclosure of donors to political action committees. "Group is visible," the article's title says, "but not its donors."But why do Wall Street hedge fund managers hide their identity? Why are they ashamed to let the world know that they are the "Families for Excellent Schools," that they--whose children attend elite schools--are pretending to be parents in New York City's poorest communities? This is life in Andrew Cuomo's New York where... |
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